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12/03/2013

VCs Hunt for Investments at SXSW

Venture Capitalists Hunt for Investments at SXSW.

SXSW draws so many entrepreneurs, it naturally also draws venture capitalists hoping to find the next big thing.

20/02/2013

The State of Our Union Depends on Small Cos.

There was little said on a key economic issue — support for small business — during President Obama's State of the Union speech last week.

Guest columnist Beth Solomon of the National Association of Development Companies makes the case for debt-refinancing.

14/02/2013

It’s Simple – Find a Niche « Voice of the Entrepreneur:

The founders of Simple believe that big banks make money by making you confused. I applaud Josh and Shamir for having the creativity to devise a way to get around the fees and provide better infor­ma­tion and service to their customers. There is a niche here and Simple is exploring it. A funda­mental key to find the pathway to success is to find a need and define a narrow market that is not served or under­served and apply your skills and innova­tion to fill the need.

Tired of bank fees? According to the Wall Street Journal, checking accounts could be subject to up to 48 different types of fees and you won’t know about them until they hit you. As if our hard-earned money wasn’t hard enough to get, it looks like it is even harder to hold onto. It seems in an effor...

13/02/2013

Reward Is Still Greater Than the Risk « Voice of the Entrepreneur:

Partic­u­larly consid­ering the fact that these Mega Banks have the implicit guarantee of the US Govern­ment, why do you think they take such horren­dous risks in the first place, they want the bonus, forget the surviv­ability of the firm, much less the account­ability to anyone, when you can make a bonus of 60 – 70% of you salary based on your trading perfor­mance, the reward is greater than the personal risk. No wonder they drove our finan­cial system to the precipice of failure.

Rumors are running wild that the traders on Wall Street will not receive their full bonuses this year. In a major step in the right direc­tion some firms are paying their bonuses now over a three-year period. For two possible reasons, the first is to try to keep their talented traders on board for a...

12/02/2013

4% Interest, Without Fees: Too Good to Be Checking?

Imagine if you could earn 3 or 4 percent interest on a "free" checking account. Well its true! Read about the Kasasa.

Decent rates are not a thing of the past, thanks to a group dedicated to giving local banks a even chance against the big boys.

09/02/2013

Entrepreneurial Spirit Not Always Clothed in Profits « Voice of the Entrepreneur:

Entrepreneur of the Week Kyle’s entre­pre­neurial spirit recently drove her to pursue a dream to seek and receive approval for a new charter school, the Detroit Achieve­ment Academy in inner city Detroit. This academy will serve as a model to other schools. When asked about how you make money doing that she said, “you can’t, that is what is so cool about this project, I can use my business chops with the sole purpose of making a differ­ence in many children’s lives.”

Kyle Smitley gradu­ated college at DePauw Univer­sity in 2007 and had dreams of heading to the beach in San Diego surfing all day and doing some yoga for the summer while working on her law school appli­ca­tions. Instead her parents encour­aged her to do an intern­ship in Washington, D.C. While work...

08/02/2013

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08/02/2013

Beyond Food Trucks: More Businesses Go Mobile

Going mobile! Standard businesses are going without offices creating better profits and faster more convenient service.

More entrepreneurs are forgoing costly storefronts and instead running small businesses from their cars.

06/02/2013

Budget Saver: A Trillion Dollar Coin « Voice of the Entrepreneur:

It seems that the word budget by its very nature conjures up in our mind negative conno­ta­tions. What comes to your mind? Restrictions, drudgery, debt, no fun, and who took away my mad money. However a budget is an integral part of any successful business plan. Don’t we all wish that our business plan would yield a business or income worth the Trillion-Dollar coin?

The idea of minting a Trillion-Dollar coin is being floated around Washington these days as a way to reduce the debt ceiling so they can continue to spend without borrowing more money. If only this type of innova­tion worked in the real world. Each of us knows that at the end of the month we need to...

05/02/2013

Confidence – the Distinguishing Character Trait « Voice of the Entrepreneur:

The key to discov­ering your talent and becoming a star in your own realm is confi­dence. It takes confi­dence to try something only to flop and realize that this may not be your talent. It takes confi­dence to perse­vere in spite of failure once we know our talent or capabil­i­ties and set our deter­mi­na­tion to succeed.

What is the differ­ence between a super star athlete and a good team player? You say not everyone can be the star player. You are right, but think about it. That state­ment applies to everyone else except you. Right?!! We all have a secret desire to be the standout that everyone recog­nizes and talk...

03/02/2013

Scott Peterson, CEO Porchlight Homes, Phoenix, Arizona « Voice of the Entrepreneur:

Entrepreneur of the Week Scott is well on his way to getting his value out of the company as the first two years of deter­mi­na­tion are starting to payoff. He made the right decision to stick with it and continue to be an entrepreneur.

Real Estate is an Entre­pre­neurial Business. I worked for one of the nations largest residen­tial builders and devel­opers. When the time was right for me, I felt that I wanted to do it on my own. With two other partners I started a company called Element Homes in Phoenix AZ. We had a successful bu...

01/02/2013

Who’s in Charge of Our Money? « Voice of the Entrepreneur:Voice of the Entrepreneur:

It is clear, that the Christmas and New Year’s holidays were filled with a lot of cheer giving by the banks. They have managed to neutralize signif­i­cant regula­tory require­ments imposed by the laws enacted in response to the finan­cial crisis. In fact they have delayed the imple­men­ta­tion of signif­i­cant new regula­tion on risky trading on their own account, using our money, and imple­men­ta­tion of capital require­ments designed to reduce the possi­bility of another finan­cial crisis until 2019.

If you think the banks are in charge of the money you are right. Now isn’t that the logical answer to that question? In the months following a near meltdown of our nation’s finan­cial system, Congress felt that the Bank’s need more regula­tory control over them. In fact, not only did Congress feel t...

31/01/2013

It Pays to Ask the Right Question « Voice of the Entrepreneur:Voice of the Entrepreneur:

The actions of the FTC would be consis­tent with the recom­mended action prescribed to Google today by encour­aging licensing agree­ments, rather than acqui­si­tions. This will result in a broader and diverse market­place comprised of smaller compa­nies and less dominance by mega software compa­nies. After all, our economy thrives when there are more startups and more market oppor­tu­ni­ties that are not closed to compe­ti­tion through control­ling the playing field.

Today the Federal Trade Commis­sion announced that after two years of inves­ti­ga­tion that Google did not unfairly favor its own services in their Universal Search product. Two years is a long time and a lot of taxpayer dollars to inves­ti­gate a company after asking the wrong question. The questio...

30/01/2013

How to Fund Your Startup « Voice of the Entrepreneur:Voice of the Entrepreneur:

Lacking a reliable source of funding for our start up enter­prises makes launching a new business even trickier. There are many innov­a­tive ways to do it including equity financing and crowd­funding. However, bank loans have been the choice and model for capital­izing businesses for more than a 150 years in our country.

Who can you count on? Increas­ingly business owners are turning to family, friends and wealthy contacts to seek funding for their businesses. The wealthy are earning less than 2% on bond fund yields so they are looking for a way to enhance their yield. The reason business owners are turning to frien...

29/01/2013

Dream or Fantasy? « Voice of the Entrepreneur:Voice of the Entrepreneur:

Our child­hood dreams, as opposed to the fantasies, are those thoughts and imagi­na­tions that are simple, yet hard to describe, but embla­zoned in our minds. As we tune into these images we find our true happi­ness and motiva­tions in life.

How do you recog­nize your true inner voice? You know the one that most of dismiss by saying to us “I just don’t think I can do that”. No, not in response to a friend’s urging to enter a triathlon, but the one that you knew as a young child. Usually it played out in your mind, no not like playing ho...

28/01/2013

The Entrepreneurial Spirit Caught the Flu « Voice of the Entrepreneur:Voice of the Entrepreneur:

The chilling effect of this epidemic is now felt by college students and recent college gradu­ates. With few prospec­tive employ­ment oppor­tu­ni­ties they are unsure what to do. Starting a business is an alter­na­tive but increas­ingly more daunting as a result of the events leading up to the reces­sion and the symptoms manifest during the recession.

As winter sets in many of us are catching the flu bug. It wasn’t winter that brought on the weakness to America’s Entre­pre­neurial Spirit . Actually, the chill that has covered our economy from the mega mergers of corpo­ra­tions and banks has brought a dimin­ished spirit of innova­tion and reduced ...

26/01/2013

Adam Terry, Waffle Chef Extraordinaire, Waffle Love, Provo Utah « Voice of the Entrepreneur:Voice of

Entrepreneur of the Week Adam Terry began experimenting with Belgian waffle recipes realizing that he had to have something fantastic. “There are many options to pick from when dining out. If someone is going to come to my place they need to taste something amazing to want to come back.”

Adam Terry had a child­hood dream to own and operate his own restau­rant. As a teenager he learned to work hard working in his dad’s concrete business. His parents were always encour­aging him that he could do anything he put his mind to. He felt he needed a college educa­tion and gradu­ated from Ut...

24/01/2013

Entrepreneurship Only for the 20-Somethings? « Voice of the Entrepreneur:Voice of the Entrepreneur:

When Washington actually recog­nizes that 100% of new job creation comes from start-up compa­nies, not from govern­ment spending, the US economy will grow dynam­i­cally from the innova­tion of its citizens, the taxpayers. This can only happen if Washington does not make the Entre­pre­neur disap­pear in their great vanishing act of raising taxes on those who are making the largest impact on the Nation’s economy.

According to the Global Entre­pre­neur­ship Monitor 2012 Global Report the age group with the highest percentage of Entre­pre­neurs is actually 35 – 44 in the United States. It is the only region in the world in which this age group leads the number one age group elsewhere of 25–34 years of age. Why...

24/01/2013

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23/01/2013

Voice of the Entrepreneur: « Restoring America’s Entrepreneurial Spirit via the Entrepreneurial Revo

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Restoring America's Entrepreneurial Spirit via the Entrepreneurial Revolution The Entrepreneurial Revolution will Restore America's Entrepreneurial Spirit by inspiring all to pursue their dreams through business startups The Voice of the Entrepreneur encourages Entrepreneurism to play the dominate r...